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The 20 Best Documentaries on Netflix


The Act of Killing, 13th, Stamped From the Beginning, and more.

Netflix’s documentary library has grown over the years to span several subcategories, so we’ve divided this regularly updated list into five sections: Award Winners, Music, History, Sports, and Stranger Than Fiction — the place for the stories too weird to be fake. Winner of a Special Jury Award at Sundance, it features Kirsten’s dad, Dick Johnson, in a series of short re-creations of what could lead to his demise due to his increasing dementia. While the third season was kind of a bummer, the first two years have some excellent offerings, especially Breaking Point, The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist, and this gem about the brawl at the Palace and, importantly, how the narrative of it was shaped by sports media.

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